News Turns 12: A Dozen Years of Independent Music Journalism

Right then. Twelve years.

News turns 12 this week, or 13 if you count our earlier life as This Is Progressive, which a few of you always will. Either way, we have spent twelve years doing one thing and trying to do it properly. Writing about underground electronic music, and the culture around it, with a bit of care and no agenda.

That passion is the engine of the whole thing. House, techno, progressive, drum and bass, the lot. If it comes from the underground and it moves us, we want to write about it, dig into it, and pass it on to people who feel the same way.

It is worth saying plainly what that has meant, because…